Israel

Israel's Livni to call for early general elections

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was set to call for early elections on Sunday after failing to form a new government, dashing faint hopes of reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians in 2008.

Israel approves prisoner swap

Dan Williams 30.06.2008
www.internationaleducationmedia.com

sraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmertwon his cabinet's approval on Sunday for a prisoner swap withHezbollah under which two soldiers held by the Lebaneseguerrilla group, and believed to be dead, would be recovered.


The Israeli army said the men were killed in an exchange of gunfire

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians at dawn on Tuesday in the West Bank town of Nablus, one of them a senior member of the Islamic Jihad group, the Israeli military said.